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Are the culture wars unique to our times?

May 30, 2018 • by Joe Carter

Are the culture wars unique to our times?

Culture wars are incredibly complex with overlapping conflicts that are often confused and conflated, says John D. Wilsey in this week’s Acton Commentary. For the past five decades, Americans have waged what has been commonly referred to as a “culture war.” Continue Reading...

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May 30, 2018

Radio Free Acton: Seeking flourishing in the context of poverty; Upstream on ‘Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts’

On this episode of Radio Free Acton, Andrew Vanderput, PovertyCure strategy and engagement manager at Acton, holds a discussion with Peter Greer, president and CEO of Hope International, on how human flourishing can be brought about in the context of poverty. Continue Reading...

May 29, 2018

The NHS and the spell of the White Witch

In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis described the dreary state of Narnia under the curse of the White Witch as “always winter but never Christmas.” His assessment may soon apply to the National Health Service (NHS), whose annually intensifying “winter crisis” threatens to become permanent, according to the UK’s leading doctors’ association. Continue Reading...

May 29, 2018

An introduction to the Solow Model

Note: This is post #80 in a weekly video series on basic economics. The Solow model was named after Robert Solow, the 1987 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Among other things, the Solow model helps us understand the nuances and dynamics of growth, says Alex Tabarrok of Marginal Revolution University. Continue Reading...

May 25, 2018

C.S. Lewis on ‘men without chests’ (and what that means)

“Men Without Chests” is the curious title of the first chapter of C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. In the book, Lewis explains that the “The Chest” is one of the “indispensable liaison officers between cerebral man and visceral man. Continue Reading...

May 24, 2018

Explainer: Congress rolls back regulations on banks and financial institutions

What just happened? On Tuesday, the House voted 258-159 (including 33 Democrats) in favor of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act. The legislation rolls back some of the Dodd-Frank banking and financial regulations that were implemented after the financial crisis a decade ago. Continue Reading...

May 24, 2018

The planner’s delusion: The backward logic of Seattle’s ‘Amazon tax’

As Americans continue to flock to large cities in search of opportunity and connection, many of those same cities are suffering from expensive housing costs, arbitrary price controls, onerous regulations, and cronyist governance—the sum of which is serving to diminish access to the pond and stunt opportunity among the disconnected. Continue Reading...

May 24, 2018

Rev. Robert A. Sirico addresses education reform in Detroit News

In today’s Detroit News, Acton President Rev. Robert A. Sirico writes that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops should consider the Catholic doctrine of subsidiarity before weighing in on education reform. Continue Reading...

May 23, 2018

Audio: Sam Gregg on the Vatican’s new statement on economics

Acton Institute Director of Research Samuel Gregg made an appearance yesterday on the Happy Hour with Mike & Vince show on WLCR in Louisville, Kentucky to discuss the Vatican’s recently released statement on “ethical discernment regarding some aspects of the present economic-financial system.” Continue Reading...

May 23, 2018

The economics and morality of infinity

In this week’s Acton Commentary I take on Thanos’ zero-sum economic worldview as manifest in Avengers: Infinity War. In the classic debate over positivity and normativity in economics, Thanos is definitely not a value-free figure. Continue Reading...

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Are the culture wars unique to our times?

Are the culture wars unique to our times?

Latest Posts

Radio Free Acton: Seeking flourishing in the context of poverty; Upstream on ‘Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts’

The NHS and the spell of the White Witch

An introduction to the Solow Model

C.S. Lewis on ‘men without chests’ (and what that means)

Explainer: Congress rolls back regulations on banks and financial institutions

The planner’s delusion: The backward logic of Seattle’s ‘Amazon tax’

Rev. Robert A. Sirico addresses education reform in Detroit News

Audio: Sam Gregg on the Vatican’s new statement on economics

The economics and morality of infinity

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